Thomas Wheeler
Interventional Cardiology · Fredericksburg, VANPI 1093702813
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.0% of the total across 97 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $4,743.
Across 97 payments — averaging $14.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$275
- Amgen$214
- Johnson & Johnson$169
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$134
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$97
- AstraZeneca$86
- plus $443 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,40499%
- Education$141%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 26 | $275 |
| Amgen | 15 | $214 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $169 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 11 | $134 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 4 | $97 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $86 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $69 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $66 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $60 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $31 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $28 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $12 |
| Gilead | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,418 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 176 interventional cardiology providers in Virginia.
Other interventional cardiology in Fredericksburg
- Rajiv TayalFredericksburg$984K
- Thomas MartyakFredericksburg$66K
- Zeshan RanaFredericksburg$23K
- Clarence FindleyFredericksburg$19K
- Arijit ChandaFredericksburg$11K
- Deepak TalrejaVirginia Beach$1.5M
- Gansevoort DunningtonRichmond$440K
- Matthew SummersNorfolk$308K
- Noah JonesFalls Church$238K
- Michael GenVirginia Beach$207K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.